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there are a few reasons really.
one problem for us is the liability issue. as much as i would like to say otherwise, i am not a rich man and i can't afford to get sued.
the way it works is similar to when someone who throws a party gets sued when someone drives home drunk. regardless of whether the person throwing the party approved of the drunk driving or not, the illegal act resulted from a situation in which they had oversight and failed to put a stop to it. therefore, legally, any actions that result come back to the person throwing the party.
the parellel on our site is that if we allow open discussion and planning of an illegal activity and it reults in any accident, injury, or death, we can be held liable. that would put a swift end to the club that everyone here has put so much effort into building up as well as ruining justin's and my lives if we were to get sued.
there is also the obvious issue of legality. it is illegal, plain and simple.
this relates to the future of the club in that we are working on being more invovled with the SEMA Action Network to work within the political arena and protect the hobby. we would be hard pressed to be taken seriously by anyone while trying to influence new laws if our membership is openly breaking existing laws.
sponsorship does play into it to some degree as well. you will notice that one of the things that goes along with the street racing and kill forums that other sites have is a war room mentality. on sites that stayed small or have such a broad appeal that have a ton of members it makes little difference. a small frum of a fe hundred members cna survive for under $100 a year in most cases, and a huge site with national appeal and hundred of thousands of members has so much activity that companies will flock to them jsut because of market appeal.
we don't have either luxary currently. the NJFBOA site is active enough that we can not use the little hobby servers, yet we are small enough that we can not seek sponsorship while putting out a war forum image.
basically, tech has access to a million+ potential customer visits a day for those companies, they can overlook the few thousnad trouble makers for a stake of that marketplace.
there really is no excuse for street racing in new jersey. there are 3 tracks operating 6 nights a week. with that many opportunities to test yourself and your car in a safe and controled enviroment, there is no real reason to be out on the streets putting the lives and property of others at risk.
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